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| Security to separatists: HC asks Govt to file response | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 22: The J&K High Court on Monday directed the state government to file its response within six weeks to a Public Interest Litigation seeking withdrawal of security to separatist leaders who are indulging in anti-national activities.
A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Sindhu Sharma passed the direction after hearing advocate Lawanaya Sharma for the petitioner Deewakar Sharma.
In the PIL it has been submitted that since the outbreak of militancy in Kashmir in 1990, there has been a war-like situation in the state, which has been aided and instigated by the forces inimical to the country sitting across the border and their agents who are sitting inside the country especially in Kashmir Valley.
"In order to maintain the security of the state as also the law and order problem, appropriate action is required to be taken against such persons who are propagating separatism of the state from the Union and who are also instrumental in the propagation of communal hatred, leading to mass migration of Kashmiri Pandit community from Kashmir. However, surprisingly instead of taking stern action against such persons, the respondents are spending huge expenses in providing security cover, boarding/lodging, medical facilities and even food to such separatists and pro-militant elements particularly in Kashmir Valley, and the amount so spent by the government is from the public exchequer which is collected through taxes being paid by the common man," the petitioner has argued.
"Therefore, it is baffling for a common man to understand as to how the taxes being paid by him through hard earned money is used for providing security cover, boarding, lodging and medicare to the persons who are threatening the very unity and integrity of the country as also the life of a common man," the PIL adds.
In the PIL it has been further said that whatever may be the policy of the government with regard to dealing with the militants and separatists, it cannot be a policy of using the money of the common man against him by providing benefits to the separatists and preachers of militancy and their agents as private respondents are indulging into mischief of inciting the public of Kashmir valley against the state and by repeatedly indulging into challenging the accession of the State to the Union and are also raising the slogans and incitements against the unity and integrity of the country. |
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